Canada

Firm overview

PCK Intellectual Property is a boutique firm with a global client base.

We are recognized for excellence in originating patent drafting, and in the preparation and filing of patent and trademark applications. PCK is also known for its automated workflows, flat-rate billing, and competitive fees that offer transparency and efficiency.

Our professionals are lawyers, patent and trademark agents, scientists, and engineers with strong theoretical grounding in science, math, and software. This foundation makes us agile and deeply knowledgeable in cutting-edge technologies and modern business models.

PCK is home to seasoned general counsel, commercial advisors, and litigation counsel with experience across a wide range of industries and technologies. We support a full suite of intellectual property and related commercial services, including IP identification, protection, portfolio management, strategy, commercialization, dispute resolution, and litigation.

We work closely with clients to tailor strategies that align with their goals, protect their innovations, and drive value.

PCK is as innovative as you are.

Firm overview

Marks & Clerk is one of the UK’s largest, and longest established, intellectual property firms. Our expert teams of patent and trade mark attorneys and lawyers are wired directly into the UK’s innovation economies via our offices in London, Birmingham, Manchester, Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen. Alongside our presence in the UK, we also have offices in nine international locations covering the EU, Canada and Asia, meaning we can tap into local expertise, globally. 

Our team provides a full-service IP offering, from the initial filing of IP, through to litigation and commercial exploitation. Having seen the benefits that our clients derive from our full-service model, a number of patent attorney firms have since sought to follow a similar approach by adding solicitors to their teams. However, our well-established and highly regarded litigation and commercial transactions practices continue to set us apart from other firms.

We are experts not only in intellectual property law, but also in the science and technology that underpins our clients’ businesses. Our ability to draw upon this specialist technical expertise, not just in the context of patent prosecution but also in the context of litigation and commercial transactions, enables us to provide clients with a level of service and reach unmatched by other firms.

Firm overview

Founded in 2008, BRION RAFFOUL LLP is a leading Canadian IP law boutique firm.

We have a strong Canadian client base that includes universities, Canadian government agencies, multinational corporations, and small, medium, and large Canadian businesses. Our clients operate across a broad spectrum of technical domains, with deep experience in artificial intelligence, cybersecurity,telecommunications, and electronics. We also have a rapidly growing practice in the fields of oil and gas, microbiology, and pharmaceuticals.

BRION RAFFOUL LLP’s team of lawyers and patent and trademark agents are exceptionally skilled in securing and managing IP assets globally. Our patent agents, with backgrounds in engineering and other scientific disciplines, are highly experienced in procuring patents in cutting-edge fields. We offer a complete suite of IP services that includes managing patents, trademarks, and design registrations in Canada, the United States, and worldwide.

Through our robust international network of associates, we protect our clients’ IP assets throughout the world. In addition to our Canadian clients, we represent a broad array of foreign clients seeking to protect their intellectual property in Canada, both directly and through foreign associates.

Since 2014, BRION RAFFOUL LLP has been ranked as one of the top patent prosecution firms in Canada by IAM Patent 1000, which is commonly regarded as the definitive ‘go-to’ resource for those seeking to identify world-class private-practice patent expertise across the world. We have also received IAM’s prestigious silver ranking since 2016. This incredible achievement reflects the continued dedication and expertise of our exceptional team, who have consistently delivered outstanding intellectual property services to our clients. In addition to this prestigious silver ranking, both Natalie Raffoul and Art Brion are recognized as “Highly Recommended Individuals”, and Natalie is recognized as a global IP leader in IAM Strategy 300.

Firm overview

Osler’s top-ranked Intellectual Property team is renowned for its deep bench strength, featuring excellence in IP litigation; a stellar record in blockbuster patent and trade-mark prosecution; expertise in portfolio advising and management; and unmatched experience in helping realize the value of IP portfolios in mergers, reorganizations and other business transactions.

The team has a well-earned international reputation for excellence in Canadian IP litigation, including cross-border matters, built on our winning trial record representing some of the world’s most prominent companies and innovators in resolving their ground-breaking patent, copyright and trade-mark disputes in Canada.  

Osler’s Intellectual Property professionals offer proven expertise and superior service for clients of all sizes across a broad range of industries, including pharmaceuticals, biotech, technology, life sciences, electronics, aeronautics, consumer products, sports and entertainment, food services, and mechanical, chemical and software engineering.

We have extensive experience in drafting, filing, prosecuting and maintaining patent and industrial design applications in Canada, including for leading Canadian and multinational companies. Our patent agents, most of whom are PhD or Masters qualified, are highly proficient in dealing with patent protection and patent avoidance issues in the design, engineering and manufacturing of products, and particularly products to be distributed simultaneously in multiple jurisdictions. We regularly conduct freedom-to-operate studies and render opinions in respect of Canadian patents for our clients.

Osler has in-depth experience in clearing, registering, maintaining and enforcing trade-mark rights in Canada and internationally, on managing domestic and international portfolios for leading Canadian and global corporations and in successfully representing clients’ interests before the courts and intellectual property administrative tribunals. We also service an extensive network of foreign law and agency firms, assisting those firms in protecting the Canadian rights of their clients. For many consecutive years, Osler has been among the top filers of trade-mark applications with the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (“CIPO”).

Osler’s Intellectual Property team also represents clients in disputes and litigation involving copyright (including infringement claims, ownership disputes and Copyright Board tariff proceedings), trade-marks (including infringement claims, expungement proceedings and Trade-Mark Opposition Board proceedings), domain names, trade secrets/confidential information, anti-counterfeiting and misleading advertising.